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Tune Add: Lullaby of an Infant Chief

02 Jul 02 - 02:28 PM (#740842)
Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: LULLABY OF AN INFANT CHIEF (W Scott)
From: MMario

LULLABY OF AN INFANT CHIEF
(Sir Walter Scott/Clayton Jones)
from 'BLENDING VOICES - The World of Music' - 1936

Oh, hush thee, my baby, thy sire was a knight,
Thy mother a lady both lovely and bright.
The woods and the glens, from the tow'rs which we see,
They all are belonging, dear baby, to thee.

Oh, fear not the bugle, though loudly it blows!
It calls but the warders that guard thy repose.
their bows would be bend-ed, their blades would be red,
Ere the step of a foeman draws near to thy bed.

Oh, hush thee, my baby, the time soon will come
When thy sleep shall be broken by trumpet and drum.
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may,
For strife comes with man-hood and waking with day.


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02 Jul 02 - 02:57 PM (#740852)
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Lullaby of an Infant Chief
From: masato sakurai

The Levy has this sheet music (Click here):

Title: The Bromo-Seltzer Collection of 54 Popular Songs. Complete and Unabridged. Full Music Size With Piano & Organ Accompaniment. Oh, Hush Thee, My Baby.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: na
Publication: Baltimore: Emerson Drug Co., n.d..
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: Oh, hush thee, my baby! thy sire was a knight
First Line of Chorus: Oh, rest thee, babe, rest thee babe
Engraver, Lithographer, Artist: S.G. Malone, Balto.
Advertisement: ads on front and back covers for Stieff pianos, and for Emerson's Bromo-Seltzer
Subject: Musicians--women
Subject: Bottles
Subject: Lullabyes
Subject: Sleeping
Subject: War
Duplication: cover same as Box 97 Items 228-231, and Items 238, 240, 242, 244-245, 247-252, 254, 261-263, 266, 269, 270, and 272-A
Call No.: Box: 097 Item: 272b

~Masato

02 Jul 02 - 03:03 PM (#740854)
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Lullaby of an Infant Chief
From: MMario

different tune - I will transcribe when I get a chance.

02 Jul 02 - 03:16 PM (#740860)
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Lullaby of an Infant Chief
From: masato sakurai

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 (Titles: Oh-) (Library of Congress) has three editions of "Oh, hush thee, my baby." Two are by Arthur Sullivan; one ("Oh hush thee my baby; Lullaby") by Alfred G. Robyn. The title given by KIDiddles: Song Lyrics is "Scotch Lullaby."

~Masato

02 Jul 02 - 03:58 PM (#740888)
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Lullaby of an Infant Chief
From: Malcolm Douglas

The song also appears in Hugh S. Roberton's Songs of the Isles (1950) as Highland Cradle Song (Hush Thee, My Babie), set to a "Traditional Highland Tune". The text is set with a traditional refrain in Gaelic, and only the first couplet and the last two of those given above are used. The full Scott text appears as Hush thee, my Baby in Alfred Moffat's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Highlands, also with the Gaelic refrain and set to the same tune. It is accompanied by a full Gaelic text, Caidil gu Lò, three verses of which are described as "Old"; a further three were added by Malcolm MacFarlane. It seems to have the same general tenor as the Scott text, but the latter is not a translation of it.